Children of the Land
Subtitle: Adversity and Success in Rural America (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780226202662
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Children; Rural communities; Family; Sociology Of Youth; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Life Stages - Adolescence; Sociology - Rural; Social Science / Sociology / Rural; Parenting - General; Sociology - Urban; Family relationships; Parenting; Rural conditions; Rural youth; Success; United States
First sentence: As we edge closer to the twenty-first century, American families and young people continue to leave agriculture as they have during past decades.
Description: "In Children of the Land, the authors ask whether traditional observations about farm families - strong intergenrational ties, productive roles for youth in work and social leadership, dedicated parents, and a network of positive engagement in church, school, and community life - apply to 300 Iowa children who have grown up with some tie to the land. The answer, as the authors show, is a resounding yes.

The study includes families involved in full-time or part-time farming, displaced farm families, families in which the parents grew up on a farm, and non-farm families - the comparison group."--BOOK JACKET.